Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...These breaks are a great transition from one piece of your career to another," says Evans, explaining that over the next few months he hopes to begin a book on the political and social shifts that have marked his political career...
Specifically, Moore and Fox divided the departments into three groups--social sciences, humanities and the physical sciences--and gave one GSAS admissions and financial aid officer responsibility for each of the areas. The bulk of GSAS's administrative contact with departments involves admissions and student stipend awards, according to administrators and professors...
...Lottman does pull successfully the political and social controversies of the times into the narrative, giving the story a context that is far more interesting when he manages not to say whether it was one Saturday or the next Tuesday...
Joshua DeShaney is paralyzed and profoundly retarded, the victim of brutal pummelings at age four by his father. Joshua, now nine, is also the victim of inaction by Wisconsin's Winnebago County department of social services. The agency failed to remove the child from his divorced father's custody despite continual reports of abuse for nearly two years, repeated hospitalizations for serious injuries, and regular observations by a caseworker of suspicious bumps and lesions. Joshua's father was convicted of child abuse in 1984 and paroled from prison after less than two years. Last week, in a ruling that stunned...
...they represent a diversion from more important matters. "This undue concern with our name is a reflection of our powerlessness," says Cornell University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., a leading literary theorist. "I don't really care what we call ourselves. I just want us to get economic and social equality...